He was sitting up in bed.

He glanced happily at his approaching friend, and Cornelli, too, felt deep joy at seeing him again.

The hours she had spent with him had been the only happy ones she had had all summer.

Quickly sitting down by his bed, she began to relate to him everything that had happened in Iller-Stream since his departure.

Dino asked many questions that Cornelli had to answer, and the time went by they knew not how.
Mux had disappeared.